Whilst I think this list is a start, I don't think it goes far enough.

Commons lang and commons collections contains a whole wealth of ideas, as do similar utility projects elsewhere. My hope is that these methods won't be added to the JDK simply because they come from Google. I'd like to see a more rational process for determining what gets added and what doesn't.

I don't think it goes far enough either, but it is NOT our intent to say "these are the ONLY library changes we want to let in." These happen to be the things that Doug and Josh and I were able to reach consensus on so far, so we put them in a document that bears our names; that's all.

You sent me some ideas in email; thanks for that (you should post them here too!)

How about Enum.valueOf(int ordinal) method? Today, only Enum.valueOf(String name) method is generated by compiler. Enum.values() returns an array which result in a lot of boiler plate code in enum classes to support such method.